Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-11
ALEXANDER OF RUSSIA.
Incidents In His stormy
Life Not Generally
Known.
His Public and Private Lfs-Ths cEar
ina the Idol Of Ills Home-The
Strongest Kind Of Government
Hts Ideal Of Raling-A Stern


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Mail and Express.
While the private and public life o
every other European monarch has FIRE
qasntly given the journalists pen occa
SION 70 cover 9 Team Of psper. more o.
les. Alexander AlexsndroWitch Of Rus
sis hss kept the modern hierophAnts, 4
whom every secret is known and vhS
are initiated INTO every mystery Of life
pretty we'll st bay. What has crspi
into print about him. Of and on. Ia
sniformly been maFred By inaccuracies
This IL sasily explained The present
Gar IL n0t readily approached, ant
since bis advent to the throne especially
be has been hedgsd about 50 thorough
iy that even the intrepid Rathsrer OF
news has often lest scent before reach
log him. Alexander III say the frosty
snn Of the ksva first on March l0tk
CFebsusrv 36gh BY toe Russian calen.
daF). l545, as the second son Of Alexan-
der II, and was educated With his elder
brother. tbs heir presumptivs. Nicolas,
by two years bis senior. The education
Of these twe Princess was pot into the
hands Of Count 5. StroRonow, bat their
real ''gouveTneurn was Privy Councillor
Titow, recalled for the purpose from bis
post IS Russian Ambassador at the
Court of Stuttgart. In Titov's place
State Councillor Won Grimm was sp-
pointed 10 1858, when Alexander vas II
years of age. From that time on the
boy drank daily deep from the fount Of
German learning, as nearly all bis tutors
we're professors Of that natiosality.
Grimm, however, 10 spite Of bis Ger
nan mans, vas an arch Russian by
heart. and the early influence Of TitoW.
q Mascovite of the old school to the
fiRRer-tips, bad sunk deep into the
youthful Princes soul. Grimm, twenty
years before, had guided the education
Of Prince Constantine Nicolaiewitch.
The military training vas entrusted 20
a. adjataat- general residing in the
Winter Palace, the religious instruction
to learned old pope. and State Score
tsry Baron Modest KoFff, author OF sew
ersl books on Russian history, taught
the high born twain all of Russian
statecraft, history aud lAw they we're de.
sirous 80 learn. On April "a, 1865, the
death of the CesaFewitch interviewed 81
Nice, and Alexander then Just attaininr
his majority, was solsmnly declared the
heir TO the throne. In the following
year, on November 8. 1866, be welded
with much pomp the Danish lady who
had been his late brothers. fancae
Princess DagmsF, King Christian IX'G
daughter. Baptized in the Greek orths
dox faith. she received the names Marie
FeOdorOvna in exchange for hsr former
ones-Msrie Sophie Frederika DaRmar
~ sak l.
olished as she il beautiful, was born or
November &c, lS47, and vas consequently
her spouse's junior by two years and
eight months. The young eonsort OF
the Russian heir came from q court
where the loss of two beautiful provinces
Just swallowed NJ by Prussia, was
mouFned With tears OF impotent wrath
and where pious William BY the Spree
had been daily mathematical. What
wonder, then, that the beautiful bride
made her young husband, then in the
flush Of enthusiasm so common 10 heirs
presumptive, sharer in her mortal an.
tipathy to the Hohenzolleru dynasty
The palpable effect of these uxorious
lessons was not long in coming. The
Prince within a few months was the
acknowledged head of the German
party at the oonrt, at that time and up tc
the hour of Alexander lis death divid.
ed into the old Russian and the new
Russian or German parties. In Berlin
they we're we'll Informed about this, and
Bismarck together with his master in.
duleed in dire feFebodings as to what
would happen when Alexander II should
close his eyes. The war of 1901 came
and the flames burst out afresh with re-
neved viRor. The Gar and his imme.
diate encourage were in full sympathy
With GERMANY at that time, and especial
pains we're taken to emphasize this stat
OF feeling. The younger Alexander, on
the other hand, had q vell-organizsd
following OF bis own, whose sympathies
we're strongly In another groove. The
inevitable result vas that these sympa-
thies and antipsthies frequently clsshe6
and that snubs and the "cnt direct
we're dealt out very literally and evenly
distributed during the whole duration
Of the FrsRco-6erman conflict and for
some time after TO the representatives, OF
Germany 81 well As France. Personal
encounters and even dueis ensued, and
A exander II had rather q busy time OF
it trying TO sllay the outraged feelings
Of his ambassador and Of that attache
or secretary.
FATHER AND SON OPPOSED.
Occasionally. however, be, too. felt
provoked and on one notAble occasion